Galloway and good buddies in better times.
Posted on 08/05/2005 3:51:23 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
Tony Blair and George Bush have "far more blood on their hands" than the terrorists who carried out the London tube bombings, George Galloway said today. Mr Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green, said that the attacks on the capital by Islamic extremists could not be separated from the invasion of Iraq and Britain's treatment of the Muslim world.
He said that the "al-Qaida phenomenon" had arisen directly as a result of western policies in the Middle East.
Mr Galloway had already attracted criticism for remarks made to Syrian television, attacking Arab governments which collaborated with foreigners in the "rape" of their "beautiful daughters" of Jerusalem and Baghdad. In an interview with the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning, in the wake of the latest al-Qaida video blaming Mr Blair for the destruction in London and warning of more attacks, Mr Galloway insisted that he too condemned the bombings.
"The people who brought destruction to London were primarily the people who committed the acts of mass murder," he said.
"What we say is we refuse to be part of a conspiracy to deny that it has anything to do with the fact that our country is going round the world setting fire to other people's countries and killing them.
"I think there is hardly a sentient being in the land left who doesn't believe these things are connected.
"I am utterly against the punishing of innocent people for the crimes of the guilty, whether it is done on the underground in London or the streets of Fallujah by George Bush's air force."
He repeated his view that it was Mr Bush who was the world's "biggest terrorist" and said that the US president and Mr Blair had shed far more blood than the bombers.
"If it is a question of quantum, there is far more blood on the hands of George Bush and Tony Blair than there is on the hands of the murderers who killed those people in London," he said.
He denied that he was seeking to justify the terrorist attacks.
"If I say a car has four wheels and the Ford Motor Company say it has four wheels, that doesn't make me part of the Ford Motor Company," he said.
However, he said that the rise of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida was the direct result of western policies.
"The al-Qaida phenomenon arose out of the first war on Iraq; arose out of the occupation of Jerusalem and the killing of the Palestinians and the dispersal of the refugees around the world; arose out of our support for the puppet presidents and corrupt kings of the Muslim world," he said. Mr Galloway's comments were condemned as "twisted" and "absurd" by the shadow foreign secretary, Liam Fox.
"I think that George Galloway is a sad and twisted but ultimately irrelevant politician," Mr Fox told the Today programme.
"I think that his self-righteousness is matched only by his stupidity. I think his views are quite ridiculous."
He said that it was "deeply offensive" to describe insurgents and terrorists as "martyrs".
"He talks about them as martyrs which, I think, is language extraordinarily sympathetic to people who kill the innocent. It is the sort of language used by university debaters, not serious politicians," he said.
It's Galloway's blood that should be on their hands.
Galloway has blood on his maxi pad...
Mr. Galloway is following the latest Al Qieda line. The terrorist bombings are the fault of Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair. By that reasoning, the destruction of the Iraqi army, the damage to Iraq’s infrastructure, the overthrow of Saddam’s government and the overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan is Ben Laden’s fault. Mr. Blair and Bush bear no fault, only the responsibility of responding in an appropriate manner to Al Qieda’s acts of terrorism.
This guy is nuts!
Yep – a pandering nutcase.
Galloway and good buddies in better times.
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Blair was pretty good, said he does not want to get into a shouting match with this man, it is just what he wants.
"Either you're for us or against us..."
OPINION:
Well, Mr. Galloway is not for us.
ping.
Yes I did!
He didn't care for that ba$&ard!
LOL, you know if we had the same rules as the Brits are establishing in their version of the Patriot Act, we could get exile Howard Dean real fast.
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-MP George Galloway- voice cries "peace," hand in Saddam's till...--
Galloway should be more worried about the water in his brain, and his upcoming prison sentence for receiving oil credits from Saddam.
The Britsh authorities should go after Galloway as an accessory after the fact.
Coming from Galloway.. this is meaningless, and pure psychologic projection. He's just angry cause he got caught with his hands in the till/mill/op.
Galloway and the loser lunatic left in the country speak the same BS!
Hang 'em High ~ Bump!
I absolutlely consider the source.
THANKS for that link backhoe.
Oh, ta ta... he's a rightly confused individual. The poor darling must have been released a bit early from the sanitorium.
Actually, I heard 2-3 of the talk show hosts on AirAmerica saying the same thing...and Charlie Rangel was chiming in..
The hosts were saying that the blood of those Marines in the last week are all over Bush, Cheney and Rummy...that they were drenched in the blood...it even got more graphic...
Did you hear the audio that J.D. Hayworth was playing today on Laura Ingraham's show of Maxine Waters speech?
I do believe that Mr. Galloway now fits the profile that Tony Blair described as someone who incites hatred. Perhaps he will find his fate tied to another just like him. Lord Haw Haw.
Naa I missed it. We get a late version of Laura's show here at WABC radio. I'll tune in.
Galloway: The best pol Muslim money can buy.
Amazing how many leftist scumbags cozied up to Saddam Hussein -
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